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Editorial: Welcome To The Hi-Fi+ 2025 Awards
Congratulations to our Ł2,900 contest winner!
Editorial By Alan Sircom
As this Awards issue went to press, we heard news that audio giant Bose will purchase the McIntosh Group, the company behind McIntosh audio electronics and Sonus faber loudspeakers. The inevitable stream of online comments ensued, with everything from expecting McIntosh and Sonus faber to disappear by the end of the week, through general hatred toward late-stage capitalism, to a few positive voices. Although such buyouts are often uneasy actions, there's three things to consider here. First, this is not the McIntosh Group's first time it's been bought and sold. The group has been through several venture capitalist and managed buyouts in recent years. Bose might just be its forever home. Secondly, Bose brings a lot of corporate firepower (and a well-stocked war chest) to the party... who knows, maybe we'll see the return of Wadia, as the brand name is a vestigial part of the McIntosh Group.
---> Welcome To The Hi-Fi+ 2025 Awards.

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Awards
11 The 2025 Hi-Fi+ Awards
We look at all the products we've tested in 2024, to pick the very best of the best.
Find out what the finest audio systems will be sporting next year!

Equipment Reviews
166 Accustic Arts TUBE PREAMP V/AMP IV
Preamplifier / Power Amplifier

173 PMC Active twenty5.22i
Stand-Mount Loudspeaker

176 Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G
Stand-Mount Loudspeaker

181 DS Audio DS-E3
Optical Cartridge And Equaliser

184 Chord Company PowerHAUS P6
Mains Distribution Board

189 Merason Reuss
Digital To Analogue Converter (DAC)

192 DALI Rubikore 2
Stand-Mount Loudspeaker

Feature
196 Meet Your Dealer
We return to Soundstage Hi-Fi in Cockfosters, North London, to see
what's changed and what Michelin stars and mojitos have to do with it!

Music
200 Thompson Twins Into The Gap
The newly reissued, fourth and most successful album from 1980s
pop trio Thompson Twins turns 40 this year.

209 Music Reviews
Contemporary, Classical, Jazz And Audiophile Music

Competition
170 Win! Meze Audio Liric II
The second generation of Meze Audio's superb closed-back planar
magnetic headphones worth Ł1,850 / $2,000 / €2,000 must be won!

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206 Subscriptions
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215 Advertiser Index

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